electrological dig
What do you think this is?
Yeah, I had no idea either, but it was permanently attached to the side of my house, in this little nook where we keep our trash cans. The same nook serves as the only entrance point to the basement for the time being, so every time I need to go downstairs in the dark, I have to stumble across the trash cans until I can reach the door - there's no light there.
Curiosity finally got the best of me, and I decided to investigate (the neighbors, I'm sure, were curious in their own right as to what I was doing outside in the middle of a snow storm). After tracing the wires, playing with the fuses, and miraculously not electrocuting myself, I have a theory.
It seems that the original owners put in a very nicely-designed switch for the light, just in the right spot for the basement door. They probably had it installed professionally when they were putting in the addition, as all the wires are tucked away inside weatherproof boxes.
Then the next owners had the crazy idea of building their own sprinkler system. They took apart the light fixture, and ran a wire to the water control valve. That green garden hose in the picture is actually a conduit; it's anybody's guess where it was supposed to go, as it's been cut a long time ago.
So after some huffing and puffing (and nearly freezing my toes off), I restored the light to its original grandeur, and removed the water control thingie, garden hoses and all. I now have a clean-looking switch that actually does something, and the wires that I removed are just what I need to finish installing an exhaust fan in the bathroom.
It's amazing that things like that make me really, truly happy.
Yeah, I had no idea either, but it was permanently attached to the side of my house, in this little nook where we keep our trash cans. The same nook serves as the only entrance point to the basement for the time being, so every time I need to go downstairs in the dark, I have to stumble across the trash cans until I can reach the door - there's no light there.
Curiosity finally got the best of me, and I decided to investigate (the neighbors, I'm sure, were curious in their own right as to what I was doing outside in the middle of a snow storm). After tracing the wires, playing with the fuses, and miraculously not electrocuting myself, I have a theory.
It seems that the original owners put in a very nicely-designed switch for the light, just in the right spot for the basement door. They probably had it installed professionally when they were putting in the addition, as all the wires are tucked away inside weatherproof boxes.
Then the next owners had the crazy idea of building their own sprinkler system. They took apart the light fixture, and ran a wire to the water control valve. That green garden hose in the picture is actually a conduit; it's anybody's guess where it was supposed to go, as it's been cut a long time ago.
So after some huffing and puffing (and nearly freezing my toes off), I restored the light to its original grandeur, and removed the water control thingie, garden hoses and all. I now have a clean-looking switch that actually does something, and the wires that I removed are just what I need to finish installing an exhaust fan in the bathroom.
It's amazing that things like that make me really, truly happy.
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